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Workshops at Vale:

List of upcoming after-school workshops for 2013-14:

Oct - Library Classroom- Promethean Board –

Nov. - Computer lab - Blog it!

Dec --Wikispaces & Google Calendar–

Tech How-To's:

• Videos to learn how to use Web 2.0 tools in 5 mins.!: LearnItin5

• Videos on Tech & other 'How-To's' - most are 2 min. or less: CommonCraft

• Interactive Whiteboard : 101 tips for beginners: interactive whiteboard

• Teach or learn without email - Share your screen!! : http://www.screenleap.com/

• http://technews.nisd.net/camptech/

Technology:

• List of books on technology in the classroom available at the NAC Library:

  

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• iPods & iPads in the classroom - lessons, app reviews, etc. - a teacher's blog: ipodsibilities

• Community based educational technology projects: Web 2.0 Labs

• Best of the Web: Richard Byrne:

  
  http://www.slideshare.net/rbyrnetech/best-of-the-web-2013

iPods:

How to upload videos to iPod:

iPad:

Cool tools for/as iPad:
http://www.3rdgradethoughts.com/2013/03/5-free-and-mostly-free-apps-i-use-when.html

Smart Notebook:

How to use it:

Working with Documents/Google:

• Give a document it's own website -instantly by sharing a doc.to public for visibility only - Google Docs/Drive

• Five Essential Google Drive Skills for Teachers: FreeTechnologyForTeachers

• Organize students turning in work in Google Drive with folders : gClassFolders-How to use gClassFolders

  
  
  
  

Blogging in the Classroom:

• What are blogs?: Common Craft

• 3 Ways to Use Classroom blogs: freetech4teachers.com

• Easily set up a Wordpress blog for your class (via NISD): http://learningspace.nisd.net/ -Once you have set up your blog - Log in here

• 3 classroom blogging tips: the tempered radical

• Four Good Ways to use Media in your blog: Freetech4teachers

Infographics:

What is an infographic? infographic by Hot Butter Studio.

How to create infographics video: http://vimeo.com/55186393

Great for 1st timers: http://www.easel.ly/

Works with Internet Explorer: www.piktograph.com

Wikispaces:

• Simple way to create a wiki: www.wikispaces.com

• -What is a Wiki - view video: commoncraft

• 5 ways to use a Wiki in the Classroom: Free Technology for Teachers

• -Teacher flyer with great links! (pdf): handout

• -How-to Videos: http://www.wikispaces.com/content/wiki-tour/introduction

• YouTube -How to Videos for both beginner & advanced! : http://www.youtube.com/user/wikispacesvideos

• -Presenting Wiki to others: toolkit

Google:

• Use Google to tell if photos are fake or real -exercise with sharks in a flooded mall: http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=14209

Organizing:

Create sign-ups online: http://www.mysignup.com/

Create videos, games & more:

• Create- a youtube movie, a facebook app, a video game, and more: http://www.freshbrain.org/

• Create stop motion videos easily: JellyCam

• Creating Interactive Videos: http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2013/03/29/an-interactive-video-round-up-seven-tools-to-explore/

Going Mobile & Creating Apps:

• Step 1 -Creating an iphone app & uploading to itunes: makeuseof.com

• Step 2 - How to create an iphone or android app: makeuseof.com

• Step 3 - Go to this site: buzztouch.com

• Using smartphones for reporting and recording: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/

Radio/Podcasting:

• Youth Public Radio producers - check out the 'RESOURCES': http://generation.prx.org/

• Make your own Radio Diary : http://www.radiodiaries.org/makeyourown.html

• StoryCorps - a website that collects life stories and show you how to record & share stories: http://storycorps.org/about/

• All about Podcasting:

  

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• http://www.epnweb.org/

Managing your creations:

Storage & File Sharing:

1. Free Cloud space : http://www.dropbox.com/

2. Get free cloud storage & emails & collaborative tools for both your studenttea you: Microsoft live@edu

3.. Upload, Download, & share large files up to 1GB:http://www.uploaderbox.com/

Conversion sites:

1. Convert a video or almost anything!: http://www.online-convert.com/

2. Convert PDF to Word: http://www.pdftoword.com

Learning HTML & computer programming is easy!:

• Beginners guide: shayhowe.com

• Beginners guide to html with practice exercises: w3schools.com

• Excellent site with videos for computer programming/code: http://www.code.org/

• Free After-school program for coding!!!: http://www.codecademy.com/afterschool

Other helpful tools & guides:

• Shorten URLs or Web Addresses: http://goo.gl/

• Save web articles as PDF for later reading: http://joliprint.com/

• Documents: A. Embed video into Microsoft Word : hpTeacherExperienceExchange